All human action is an attempt to satisfy a human desire.
Creating and consuming art fulfills a desire.
What desire is being fulfilled?
In a population what demand is being satisfied?
The subjective value of an operation is created by achieving a result, not in the operation itself. The value to OTHERS in articulating operations, is that they as ‘names’ or ‘referents’ they are insulated from bias and suggestion – especially when compared to INTENTIONAL or EXPERIENTIAL descriptions.
So the value of operations in themselves is contained in the achievement of an end by the actor.
The value of speaking in a sequence of operations is contained in the improvement of truth content, over intentional and experiential descriptions. The value is that by eliminating intent and experience and error, bias, suggestion, and deceit, we purify the information transferred in the process we call ‘the communication of meaning’.
Source date (UTC): 2016-12-04 17:01:00 UTC
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